Save The Bay for general support for Save the Bay Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Advanced Energy Economy Institute to accelerate market adoption of advanced energy technologies to create a more secure, resilient, clean, and cost-effective power sector Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 EdSource, Inc. for EdSource Today, an online platform for education policy reporting and analysis, and for early childhood education-focused polls Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $330,000 Year Granted 2014 Center for Law and Social Policy to test the possibility of streamlining and simplifying child care subsidy administration in California and aligning it with early childhood education programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $80,000 Year Granted 2014 Bring Me A Book Foundation to integrate support for early mathematics into a school-based family engagement early literacy intervention Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $120,000 Year Granted 2014 MK Level Playing Field Institute for general operating support to MK Level Playing Field Institute Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Greenlining Institute for research and development of case studies that demonstrate the economic, social, environmental, and health benefits associated with California’s climate policies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $30,000 Year Granted 2014 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc for two paralegals to provide administrative support to Bay Area legal service providers representing children seeking refuge in the United States as they escape violence in Central America Program Human Rights Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $60,000 Year Granted 2014 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a literature review to establish areas of focus for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families consensus study Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Advanced Energy Economy Institute to accelerate market adoption of advanced energy technologies to create a more secure, resilient, clean, and cost-effective power sector Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 EdSource, Inc. for EdSource Today, an online platform for education policy reporting and analysis, and for early childhood education-focused polls Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $330,000 Year Granted 2014 Center for Law and Social Policy to test the possibility of streamlining and simplifying child care subsidy administration in California and aligning it with early childhood education programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $80,000 Year Granted 2014 Bring Me A Book Foundation to integrate support for early mathematics into a school-based family engagement early literacy intervention Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $120,000 Year Granted 2014 MK Level Playing Field Institute for general operating support to MK Level Playing Field Institute Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Greenlining Institute for research and development of case studies that demonstrate the economic, social, environmental, and health benefits associated with California’s climate policies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $30,000 Year Granted 2014 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc for two paralegals to provide administrative support to Bay Area legal service providers representing children seeking refuge in the United States as they escape violence in Central America Program Human Rights Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $60,000 Year Granted 2014 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a literature review to establish areas of focus for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families consensus study Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
EdSource, Inc. for EdSource Today, an online platform for education policy reporting and analysis, and for early childhood education-focused polls Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $330,000 Year Granted 2014 Center for Law and Social Policy to test the possibility of streamlining and simplifying child care subsidy administration in California and aligning it with early childhood education programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $80,000 Year Granted 2014 Bring Me A Book Foundation to integrate support for early mathematics into a school-based family engagement early literacy intervention Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $120,000 Year Granted 2014 MK Level Playing Field Institute for general operating support to MK Level Playing Field Institute Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Greenlining Institute for research and development of case studies that demonstrate the economic, social, environmental, and health benefits associated with California’s climate policies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $30,000 Year Granted 2014 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc for two paralegals to provide administrative support to Bay Area legal service providers representing children seeking refuge in the United States as they escape violence in Central America Program Human Rights Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $60,000 Year Granted 2014 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a literature review to establish areas of focus for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families consensus study Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Center for Law and Social Policy to test the possibility of streamlining and simplifying child care subsidy administration in California and aligning it with early childhood education programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $80,000 Year Granted 2014 Bring Me A Book Foundation to integrate support for early mathematics into a school-based family engagement early literacy intervention Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $120,000 Year Granted 2014 MK Level Playing Field Institute for general operating support to MK Level Playing Field Institute Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Greenlining Institute for research and development of case studies that demonstrate the economic, social, environmental, and health benefits associated with California’s climate policies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $30,000 Year Granted 2014 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc for two paralegals to provide administrative support to Bay Area legal service providers representing children seeking refuge in the United States as they escape violence in Central America Program Human Rights Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $60,000 Year Granted 2014 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a literature review to establish areas of focus for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families consensus study Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Bring Me A Book Foundation to integrate support for early mathematics into a school-based family engagement early literacy intervention Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $120,000 Year Granted 2014 MK Level Playing Field Institute for general operating support to MK Level Playing Field Institute Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Greenlining Institute for research and development of case studies that demonstrate the economic, social, environmental, and health benefits associated with California’s climate policies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $30,000 Year Granted 2014 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc for two paralegals to provide administrative support to Bay Area legal service providers representing children seeking refuge in the United States as they escape violence in Central America Program Human Rights Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $60,000 Year Granted 2014 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a literature review to establish areas of focus for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families consensus study Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
MK Level Playing Field Institute for general operating support to MK Level Playing Field Institute Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Greenlining Institute for research and development of case studies that demonstrate the economic, social, environmental, and health benefits associated with California’s climate policies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $30,000 Year Granted 2014 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc for two paralegals to provide administrative support to Bay Area legal service providers representing children seeking refuge in the United States as they escape violence in Central America Program Human Rights Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $60,000 Year Granted 2014 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a literature review to establish areas of focus for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families consensus study Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Greenlining Institute for research and development of case studies that demonstrate the economic, social, environmental, and health benefits associated with California’s climate policies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $30,000 Year Granted 2014 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc for two paralegals to provide administrative support to Bay Area legal service providers representing children seeking refuge in the United States as they escape violence in Central America Program Human Rights Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $60,000 Year Granted 2014 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a literature review to establish areas of focus for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families consensus study Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc for two paralegals to provide administrative support to Bay Area legal service providers representing children seeking refuge in the United States as they escape violence in Central America Program Human Rights Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $60,000 Year Granted 2014 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a literature review to establish areas of focus for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families consensus study Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
National Academy of Sciences to conduct a literature review to establish areas of focus for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families consensus study Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Robin Hood Foundation to help support the implementation and evaluation of a kindergarten extracurricular math club program Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $333,333 Year Granted 2014 Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Cerritos College Foundation to develop and pilot an early mathematics curriculum in two community college early learning/teacher preparation programs Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $177,430 Year Granted 2014 Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Grantmakers for Education for 2014 membership dues Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $3,500 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to support 1) research on climate science and energy technologies ; (2) policy analysis on zero-carbon energy sources and energy innovation; and3) meetings concerning zero-carbon energy sources Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $750,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Rancho Santiago Community College District to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
California Head Start Association to develop and implement early math training support for Head Start teachers and family service workers, to increase their comfort and competence around early math, and enable them to effectively engage parents Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $227,800 Year Granted 2014 Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Environmental Volunteers Inc. for general support Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Trust for Public Land for general support for Trust for Public Land Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc. for the planning phase of an incubation project that will spur innovations to support parents and informal caregivers in the first eight years of a child’s life Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $50,000 Year Granted 2014 Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Children Now to support early childhood education policy and public education and advocacy work around the Local Control Funding Formula Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $100,000 Year Granted 2014 Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Urban Institute for a demographic analysis of immigrant families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and a scan of the barriers to early care and education participation they may face Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,000 Year Granted 2014 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
East Palo Alto Kids Foundation for general operating support to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices for the state learning network on new utility business models Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support the Agua Salud Project, an ecosystem-services experiment in the Panama Canal Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
The International Institute of the Bay Area for a program review of the Bay Area Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Collaborative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Public Health Institute to convene three regional technical assistance meetings for home visiting professionals across California Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $90,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
University of Maryland to test the effectiveness of number games targeted at improving both children’s symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $16,481 Year Granted 2014 KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
KQED Inc. for general support to KQED Inc. Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $15,000 Year Granted 2014 Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition away from conventional fossil fuel technologies to clean energy technologies Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $350,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
City and County of San Francisco to support family engagement activities through matching funds contingent upon the award of a federal Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
San Jose Grail Family Services to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $210,722 Year Granted 2014 Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Opportunity Fund Community Development for support of the College Savers program which will provide financial coaching and savings incentives to help 250 low-income students pursue a college degree while establishing strong financials planning skills Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Sempervirens Fund for general support for Sempervirens Fund Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC for (1) utility energy efficiency advisory and advocacy work; and (2) support CO2 emissions standards for existing power plants. Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc. to implement the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement, a national family engagement member organization with an initial focus on birth to grade three Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $250,000 Year Granted 2014 Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Alliance for Early Success for general support, planning around home visiting, and technical assistance around Child Care Development Block Grant implementation Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $400,000 Year Granted 2014 New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
New America Foundation to create a Dual Language Learner Work Group within New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $180,000 Year Granted 2014 Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Palo Alto Partners in Education for general operating support to Palo Alto Partners in Education Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Acadia Center to develop a policy framework to put consumer and clean energy interests at the center of the energy system in the New York State Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next
Great Schools to develop and test a teacher-partnered version of the GreatKids website, with a focus on serving parents of 3- to 5-year-old children Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next
Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc to support the Parents as Teachers 30th Anniversary event with the proceeds benefiting the Mildred Winter Scholarship Fund Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $5,000 Year Granted 2014 Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for a mini-grant program designed to help preschool and K-3 teachers in low-income communities purchase mathematics-related curricula, materials, and professional development services Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $55,000 Year Granted 2014 San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next
San Francisco Jazz Organization for general support for the San Francisco Jazz Organization Program Past Program Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $10,000 Year Granted 2014 Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next
Regulatory Assistance Project for stakeholder interviews, research, writing, and educational outreach to disseminate best practices in rate design to make the U.S. electricity system clean, efficient, and economical Program Climate and Clean Energy Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $173,682 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next
University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 2 3 4 Next
YMCA of Silicon Valley to develop and pilot an early math program for young children and their family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in an informal preschool setting Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $129,362 Year Granted 2014 Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014
Puente de la Costa Sur to implement coordinated and evidence-based family engagement services for families of young children in San Mateo County’s South Coast Program Education Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $399,972 Year Granted 2014